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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for December 2023:

Classic:
But if I and another come up against one another … the sum does not exactly divide, there is a remainder somewhere, where the souls end and the world has not yet begun, and this remainder is what is essential.
— Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1938.

Direct:
Listen to people who listen to you.
— Building Relationships Where People are Real, 1998.

Garden moment for December 2023:

Like lots of people, we buy a potted Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) every year to serve as our Christmas tree. After the holidays we plant it outside, since the climate of Anastasia Island off Florida's east coast is mild enough for the species generally to survive. We planted last year's tree near a Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus), which extended its branches around the Norfolk Island Pine, as if to decorate it again this year, but with bright red living flowers.

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